1942 Hits Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Hits	Team	Rank
Johnny Pesky	205	Boston Red Sox	1
Stan Spence	203	Washington Senators	2
Joe DiMaggio	186	New York Yankees	3
Ted Williams	186	Boston Red Sox
Ken Keltner	179	Cleveland Indians	5
Dom DiMaggio	178	Boston Red Sox	6
Barney McCosky	176	Detroit Tigers	7
Joe Gordon	173	New York Yankees	8
Vern Stephens	169	St. Louis Browns	9
Mickey Vernon	168	Washington Senators	10
Doc Cramer	166	Detroit Tigers	11
George Case	164	Washington Senators	12
Don Kolloway	164	Chicago White Sox
Les Fleming	160	Cleveland Indians	14
Bob Johnson	160	Philadelphia Athletics
Charlie Keller	159	New York Yankees	16
Dick Siebert	159	Philadelphia Athletics
Bobby Doerr	158	Boston Red Sox	18
Jeff Heath	158	Cleveland Indians
Don Gutteridge	157	St. Louis Browns	20
Phil Rizzuto	157	New York Yankees
Wally Moses	156	Chicago White Sox	22
Buddy Hassett	153	New York Yankees	23
Oris Hockett	150	Cleveland Indians	24
Rudy York	150	Detroit Tigers
Name	Hits	Team	Rank

	Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five. Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second). Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.